Thirteen years ago today,what were you doing when you learned of the tragedy of 9/11?

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Thirteen years ago today,what were you doing when you learned of the tragedy of 9/11?

Answer 1

Thirteen years ago today,what were you doing

I was asleep having worked a graveyard and had to return that night.For some reason I woke up at 11:30 (21/2 hours after)and turned on the news.Governor Perry was on there telling everyone not to panic,he thought Texas was safe.

Of course I couldn't go back to sleep. I stayed up all day watching the news.At about 8 p.m.,3 hours before my shift was to begin the girl I was supposed to relieve at work called and said she had to go to the hospital.I was the asst. manager and had to go,it was only 1/4 mile away. When I arrived there was an ambulance for the clerk and about 100 cars lined up for a mile down the road waiting to get gas. There had been a rumor that the gas refineries would be hit or shut down and everyone wanted to fill up their vehicles. It was a crazy time of little sleep and a lot of work.

Answer 2

I've never heard of the World Trade Center at this time and I thought the building just had a very bad fire because no one was really talking. Some kid asked the teacher what was wrong and she said a big plane hit the building and we all were all in a bit of shock. no more than 10 minutes later, on the TV, we see another large plane come into the picture, and disappear into the building and out from the other side is a fireball. My teacher screamed and we all started getting scared as 5th graders would. Then spread the idea that the USA was under attack. School was let out and everyone who could go home did by their parents and those whose parents were stuck at work stayed at school with the teachers. My dad got out of his teaching around 1030 and he grabbed my and my brothers from school, took us home and explained it all to us. I was terrified that my whole life would change and thought the USA was going to be invaded, at the time I had an active imagination..

Answer 3

I sent an email to a USENET (internet news -- now taken over as "Groups" on Google) friend. I knew she lived in that area of Manhattan. "Keep your head down," I wrote. She wrote back asking what in the world I meant. I told her to turn on the TV, she had no idea what had happened even though she was only a few blocks away.



After the tower that had been hit second fell, some idiot (Peter Jennings) on TV said there had to have been explosives at the base of the tower because he could not figure how it could have fallen from the top (although as they looped the video over and over it was obvious it had collapsed from the top). He just couldn't figure it out, which was stupid because the Oklahoma City thing had taught us all about "pancaking" -- which is that lower floor cannot support the weight of higher floors, so the all fall into a stack, like a stack of pancakes.



The live shots were clearly showing the jumpers, but by evening the jumper footage was no longer being shown on the networks. Although there are some tubes with compiled jumper footage still available, these scenes were never shown in network documentaries again.



I thought: well, we never hear of Chandra Levi again. She was a missing Washington DC intern who was missing and eventually found murdered and before 9/11 every cable news network was doing a segment on her every half-hour -- and had been for weeks until everyone was sick of it, especially as there never was any new news about her. I also thought this would be the end of a flexible (glasses) frames commercial which had a couple buildings flexing to avoid a plane headed for them.

Answer 4

My partner woke me up shortly after the first plane hit. He was watching CNBC. One of the guys on CNBC was sure it was a very small plane and that the fire would be under control quickly. To be fair, they only had a very distant shot, so the hole did not look that big.



A paraglider guy had got hung up on the flame of the Statue of Liberty a few days before, so I thought for a while that maybe it was some kind of daredevil stunt that had gone wrong.



I did some channel hopping, and some people were still saying it had been a small plane. However, they had some closer shots, and I was beginning to realize that given the scale of the WTC, the hole had to be way bigger than most private planes.



When I saw the second plane on the screen, I realized this had to be a coordinated attack and that it would hit the second tower. After the hit the guy on CNN kept talking nonsense about malfunctioning navigational beacons. He just went on about some kind of navigational failure, but I imagine everyone watching knew what it really was.



Some of the other talking heads would not quite say "terrorist," but most were beginning to say it had to be deliberate.



I sent an email to a USENET (internet news -- now taken over as "Groups" on Google) friend. I knew she lived in that area of Manhattan. "Keep your head down," I wrote. She wrote back asking what in the world I meant. I told her to turn on the TV, she had no idea what had happened even though she was only a few blocks away.



After the tower that had been hit second fell, some idiot (Peter Jennings) on TV said there had to have been explosives at the base of the tower because he could not figure how it could have fallen from the top (although as they looped the video over and over it was obvious it had collapsed from the top). He just couldn't figure it out, which was stupid because the Oklahoma City thing had taught us all about "pancaking" -- which is that lower floor cannot support the weight of higher floors, so the all fall into a stack, like a stack of pancakes.



The live shots were clearly showing the jumpers, but by evening the jumper footage was no longer being shown on the networks. Although there are some tubes with compiled jumper footage still available, these scenes were never shown in network documentaries again.



I thought: well, we never hear of Chandra Levi again. She was a missing Washington DC intern who was missing and eventually found murdered and before 9/11 every cable news network was doing a segment on her every half-hour -- and had been for weeks until everyone was sick of it, especially as there never was any new news about her. I also thought this would be the end of a flexible (glasses) frames commercial which had a couple buildings flexing to avoid a plane headed for them.



That night when I went out with dog, the quiet sky seemed so weird. I realized that even though we weren't in a flight path or anything we had been use to a more constant background noise from planes. There weren't any moving lights in the night sky.

Answer 5

Trade Center at this time and I thought the building just had a very bad fire because no one was really talking. Some kid asked the teacher what was wrong and she said a big plane hit the building and we all were all in a bit of shock. no more than 10 minutes later, on the TV, we see another large plane come into the picture, and disappear into the building and out from the other side is a fireball. My teacher screamed and we all started getting scared as 5th graders would. Then spread the idea that the USA was under attack. School was let out and everyone who could go home did by their parents and those whose parents were stuck at work stayed at school with the teachers. My dad got out of his teaching around 1030 and he grabbed my and my brothers from school, took us home and explained it all to us. I was terrified that my whole life would change and thought the USA was going to be invaded, at the time I had an active imagination..

Answer 6

I was in 5th grade, and school usually started at 8am but there were no announcements and all the teachers had their TVs on watching some really tall buildings and one was smoking. I've never heard of the World Trade Center at this time and I thought the building just had a very bad fire because no one was really talking. Some kid asked the teacher what was wrong and she said a big plane hit the building and we all were all in a bit of shock. no more than 10 minutes later, on the TV, we see another large plane come into the picture, and disappear into the building and out from the other side is a fireball. My teacher screamed and we all started getting scared as 5th graders would. Then spread the idea that the USA was under attack. School was let out and everyone who could go home did by their parents and those whose parents were stuck at work stayed at school with the teachers. My dad got out of his teaching around 1030 and he grabbed my and my brothers from school, took us home and explained it all to us. I was terrified that my whole life would change and thought the USA was going to be invaded, at the time I had an active imagination..

Answer 7

I was playing Dragonrealms when I got a call from my mother telling me of the terrorist attacks against the towers. Well, I couldn't concentrate after that, so I logged out and turned on the radio. I spent the next few hours listening, off and on cleaning so I would have some focus other than fretting. When the broadcasts became repetitive, I logged back in and found that the Gamemasters had set up portals to the amphitheater, which is an area in the game used for assembly purposes. A lot of the players were there, along with the Gamemasters themselves. And they were scared. We pretty much did a roll call in game and on the forums to see who was there and who was safe.

Answer 8

Our 6th grade class was on a day-long field trip and so nobody had a clue what had happened until we got back to the school or back home. At that point most teachers chose to turn off the televisions to allow for parents to inform all the kids who didn't know yet. I found out in the car when my mother picked me up. All I remember her saying to me was, "There's a chance you might not have school tomorrow, because there may be a day of mourning." And then I watched the news. We still went to school the next day but of course, nothing was the same.

Answer 9

Some kid asked the teacher what was wrong and she said a big plane hit the building and we all were all in a bit of shock. no more than 10 minutes later, on the TV, we see another large plane come into the picture, and disappear into the building and out from the other side is a fireball. My teacher screamed and we all started getting scared as 5th graders would. Then spread the idea that the USA was under attack. School was let out and everyone who could go home did by their parents and those whose parents were stuck at work stayed at school with the teachers. My dad got out of his teaching around 1030 and he grabbed my and my brothers from school, took us home and explained it all to us. I was terrified that my whole life would change and thought the USA was going to be invaded, at the time I had an active imagination..

Answer 10

I had just come home from school (I was in 4th grade) when I actually found out what happened. I lived in Virginia at the time and was only about 45 minutes away from the Pentagon. They wouldn't tell us anything all day at school, but we could tell something was wrong because the teachers were all acting weird. A lot of kids' parents came and picked them up early, but some, like mine, just left us at school because they figured we were safe there. But still, we all wondered why so many kids were going home early and why the teachers were all whispering to each other and looking panicked. But anyway, I remember getting off the bus that afternoon and hurrying to my house so I could find out what happened. Then I found both my parents (my dad worked but he had been sent home early) in front of the TV and we all basically watched the news in horror for the rest of the day. It was terrible seeing what happened in New York, but the fact that the Pentagon was attacked was even more scary for us because it was so close. I was so scared that DC would be bombed or we'd get attacked again in some way.

Answer 11

I was working in a machine shop in Tempe Az. . I had a reputation at the shop of being someone who thought the world was going to end and a doomsday prepper and nobody liked me.

I punched in at 06:00 and the radio was on and at 06:15 the news that a small Cessna had crashed into one of the twin towers came over the news. One guy yelled out that " John is going to say that this is a terrorist attack ! " and everybody laughed their a_ _ es off. Then the news said it was a 747. Then the news said another one hit the other tower. It got real quiet in the shop. As the day progressed it got worse and worse . Then my co-workers came to me and asked what I think will happen next . I am sad about what happened , but it looks to me we have much bigger problems than 9/11 coming our way.

Ask any scientist who is not on Big Oil or Big Coal's payroll and they will say that when the Methane in the Arctic starts melting off it will cause "Catastrophic Abrupt Climate Change". This means it will be too hot to grow things like wheat in the breadbasket areas of the world and will lead to mass starvation and possibly extinction of humanity. The Bible is very clear about what conditions will be like in the end times and it matches up nicely with what most scientists are saying.

Nobody at work thinks I am a nut anymore. I pray that Humanity wakes up before it's too late but I think we have already passed the point of no return. May God have mercy on us all !

Answer 12

I taking my son to an appointment at the military hospital on Macguire Airforce Base in New Jersey. He never did get to see the doctor that day.



Its a scary thing when all the sudden people start running around with automatic weapons and there is a announcement that "this is not a drill".



We left. As we were trying to get off base the radio was on and I heard the tragic story unfold and I knew why the base was on high alert.



As we were leaving the gate we could see a crane putting down big concrete barriers. I think if we hadn't left when we did we would have been "guests" of the base for a few days.

Answer 13

s off. Then the news said it was a 747. Then the news said another one hit the other tower. It got real quiet in the shop. As the day progressed it got worse and worse . Then my co-workers came to me and asked what I think will happen next . I am sad about what happened , but it looks to me we have much bigger problems than 9/11 coming our way.

Ask any scientist who is not on Big Oil or Big Coal's payroll and they will say that when the Methane in the Arctic starts melting off it will cause "Catastrophic Abrupt Climate Change". This means it will be too hot to grow things like wheat in the breadbasket areas of the world and will lead to mass starvation and possibly extinction of humanity. The Bible is very clear about what conditions will be like in the end times and it matches up nicely with what most scientists are saying.

Answer 14

I was at work. I remember what a pretty, sunny day it was. Someone walked by my cubicle and said the World Trade Center had been bombed. I had never heard of the WTC. We have a jumbotron out on the street outside my office and I went to the window and watched the plane crashing into the tower. I just stood there and didn't really comprehend it. Then gradually the office stopped working and we turned TVs on. People were upset, crying. No one was working. We were starting to panic. They let us go home and the streets were crowded with cars but I got home OK. I grabbed the cat and turned the TV on, then I called my brother and everyone I knew, even though I knew they were not in NYC I think we all just wanted to make sure everyone was safe.

Answer 15

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I was asleep having worked a graveyard and had to return that night.For some reason I woke up at 11:30 (21/2 hours after)and turned on the news.Governor Perry was on there telling everyone not to panic,he thought Texas was safe.

Of course I couldn't go back to sleep. I stayed up all day watching the news.At about 8 p.m.,3 hours before my shift was to begin the girl I was supposed to relieve at work called and said she had to go to the hospital.I was the asst. manager and had to go,it was only 1/4 mile away. When I arrived there was an ambulance for the clerk and about 100 cars lined up for a mile down the road waiting to get gas. There had been a rumor that the gas refineries would be hit or shut down and everyone wanted to fill up their

Answer 16

I was only four years old when 9/11 happened. I had just turned four in July. I barely remember anything but I swear to this day I have one small memory and that's watching the news coverage. I remember seeing smoke come out of the towers. I believe this memory is true because my dad says that despite being four I never left the TV. He says I watched the news coverage for hours and that I had a tiny plastic toy TV with a picture of the towers on it. He says I walked up to him with it and said "Daddy towers fall down." He says to this day that was very chilling and he'll never forget. He actually also tells me that he watched as the second plane hit the other tower.

Answer 17

I live in New Zealand.



The day started off per usual till I got to school(I was 10 at the time), there the teacher pulled out a TV and we watched it all morning - we never watched TV in class so we knew it was big.

It was like the world came to a stop for awhile to marvel in shock and horror.

It took awhile for everything to come back to normal and I remember by the end of the week I was getting fed up of nothing being on tv but 9/11, it was on every channel here constantly, I was just a child so I didn't of course have a grasp on the suffering and fear it caused a nation, I just wanted my life to get back to the normal routine.



Now at 23 I don't like talking about it, now I have a better grasp on just how horrific it was for everyone involved, the lives lost and those who witnessed people falling, and the ones who had to clean up the dismantled body parts that had once belonged to the body of a beloved wife, or husband or mother, father, and someone's child.

The fire fighters who risked their lives and saw traumatic, unforgettable images in the process.



How someone can even want to take a life, yet alone thousands.

It was beyond belief for those of us with compassion, in contrast to an absolute act of pure evil committed by those with no understanding of the value of a life.

Answer 18

I was working as a teacher, and there was a TV set on the aisle, suddenly I saw a group of students and teachers watching the TV, Then I stop my class and all the students went out to watch the TV. Despite the fact that the tragedy was not in our country, many students were crying and every person in the place was scare about what we were watching. Someone start to pray for the people who was suffering and their families and very person in the room follow his pray. The rest of the day all the students where shocked even the more naughty, became quiet just for this day.

Answer 19

I was working temp to perm in Jersey. My mom called up and said that a plane just hit the WTC. I thought she meant a small craft. Then someone who was allowed access to Internet told the office. Soon after, the air raid sirens that the town used for volunteer firemen went off. Everybody started scrambling and leaving.

I announced, loudly, 'This is what they want you to do! Stop panicking until you know what the hell is going on! Ninety percent of the crew split. I sat down and went back to the data entry drudgery. My supervisor came over and said that I might as well go too. 'No thanks,' I replied, 'I need the hours.' (Temps don't get paid if they take the day off) 'If the world's gonna end, I'm gonna be on the clock.

So I got my 7.5 hours for the day, working in peace. Then I went home and turned on CNN.

Answer 20

I was only a young child. But I do remember my Dad leaving for work & about 20 mins later I watched TV with my mom. I had no idea what was happening. All I saw were burning buildings.

My Dad eventually got sent home because some thought that Chicago may be a target too. Can't believe it's been 13 years...

Answer 21

hours after)and turned on the news.Governor Perry was on there telling everyone not to panic,he thought Texas was safe.

Of course I couldn't go back to sleep. I stayed up all day watching the news.At about 8 p.m.,3 hours before my shift was to begin the girl I was supposed to relieve at work called and said she had to go to the hospital.I was the asst. manager and had to go,it was only 1/4 mile away. When I arrived there was an ambulance for the clerk and about 100 cars lined up for a mile down the road waiting to get gas. There had been a rumor that the gas refineries would be hit or shut down and everyone wanted to fill up their vehicles. It was a crazy time of little sleep and a lot of work.

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Answer 22

I was born in 1999... When the tragic and number one terrorist attack occurred... I just reached 2 years old... Not having a single clue of whats going on around me while my parents were watching this incident on TV in China. Now that I came to U.S. (beautiful), I have learned of this 9/11 tragedy right away. I have heard about this back then in China before.. But not significant enough to fill my childhood...

Answer 23

I was working in a 'clean room' about 20 miles from where Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pa. A boss came in the clean room and told us about the planes crashing into the World Trade Towers and said a plane crashed about 20 miles away and he said 'they' had more planes in the air. He said keep working and I'll keep you informed then he left. At the time, we felt trapped because we had no tv, radio, or even windows to see outside. We didn't know if WW3 started or what until the boss came back about an hour later and told us what was happening.

Answer 24

Ask any scientist who is not on Big Oil or Big Coal's payroll and they will say that when the Methane in the Arctic starts melting off it will cause "Catastrophic Abrupt Climate Change". This means it will be too hot to grow things like wheat in the breadbasket areas of the world and will lead to mass starvation and possibly extinction of humanity. The Bible is very clear about what conditions will be like in the end times and it matches up nicely with what most scientists are saying.

Answer 25

I was a Junior in high school in Ecology class had just finished taking a quiz and my teacher handed me my homework and I was going to work on it for the reminder of class when a kid came in and said "did you know a plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers in New York?" At the time I thought what most Americans did it was an accident for most of us were two young to remember the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993. Anyway my next class that day was US History and I was walking to class and I noticed everyone was quiet that day when news came in usually teens will be talking about the weekend that past and the upcoming weekend. I was just about to walk in history when I saw the second plane hit.

Answer 26

I had just walked out of my kitchen with cups of coffee for myself and my husband. He was watching the morning news on ABC, and I remember looking out of our balcony window and thinking, "What a gorgeous morning." Chicago had the same clear, beautiful, early autumn weather as New York that morning.



And in the next second, I heard Diane Sawyer say something like, "We have just had a report of a plane hitting one of the World Trade Center towers." I wasn't that shocked, I'd always thought that an accident of that kind might happen, and of course I assumed at first that it had probably been a small private plane. The next several minutes made it clear that this had been no accident involving a small plane. My husband and I saw the second plane hit live.



I later learned that a former student of mine had died in one of the towers.

Answer 27

The wife and I were just sitting down at our computers with our morning coffee. I logged on to my homepage, a news site, and saw the headline that a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers. I immediately turned on the TV, and we watched the live coverage and rampant speculation. Then, in horror, we saw the second plane hit the South Tower. Then, we watched the Towers collapse, one by one. We were in tears; knowing that this was a deliberate attack against our country. I think, like a lot of people, we were just numb for a couple of days.

Answer 28

I was in my 11th grade chemistry class. The attacks had actually happened during my previous class, but the teacher apparently had no idea, because we had an ordinary class. On the walk to my next class, I noticed that conversation in the halls seemed to be hushed and serious, because a lot of kids already knew, but I didn't catch any specific details of what anyone was saying, so I was shocked when I walked into chemistry and looked up at the TV, which was on CNN. The second tower has just fallen a few minutes before, and they were playing video of that when I sat down in my desk. The teacher turned off the TV after about 10 minutes, taught a very brief class (which no one, including her, seemed to be concentrating on), and then turned it back on. I didn't have any other real classes that day, since all of my teachers just kept the news on.

Answer 29

I came out of the Whitehall Street R subway station, saw the smoke from the first building. I thought it was a fire. Sad but not disasterous.

While on the employee boat out to Ellis Island the second plane flew about a hundred feet over our heads, ascended several hundred feet and went into the tower and nothing was the same since.

Answer 30

I was watching the news on TV while I was getting ready to drive to Mexico for work, as I did every Tuesday.



Needless to say, after the second plane hit I cancelled my trip and was glued to the news for the rest of the day.



Such an incredibly sad event....it was like I could feel the pain of the families who lost loved one in the attack. It was years before I could watch the documentaries on 9-11.

Answer 31

I was at work when a co-worker told me about it. I work in a hospital, so there wasn't a lot of time to sit and watch what was unfolding. I didn't even know the towers fell until a few hours after it happened. I was very busy, and it wasn't until I got home that I was able to absorb all the insanity of that terrible day.

Answer 32

Just waking up, and making some coffee. Unemployed at the time. My dad had just bought me a used - but almost new - car, so excited about that. Turned on TV and saw plane crash into tower. Although I didn't personally lose friends or family members in the attack, still painful to talk about. Sad day for America.

Answer 33

I was living in China. I did not know or understand a thing about 9/11 till I was about 10? I was about 3 1/2 in 2001. I came to America in 2002. I am sad that this happened. I don't feel as much compassion and empathy as I should.

Answer 34

I was at work, looked at a little on TV there, and I though it was a joke, until I got home then I knew it was real.. everywhere I went that day, people was being so nice to each other. to bad it takes something that bad to bring people closer together.. in about 3 to 4 months it was back the was it use to be... as to this day it's still hard to see it all over again on TV...

Answer 35

I was in 8th grade and in math class, living in a suburb 10 miles north of NYC. The first report we got was a girl frantically running into the classroom and yelling that the city was being bombed. Some of the kids in my class didn't know what the Twin Towers were. One of the kids had a dad who worked on the top floors of the tower and he started crying. His dad was killed.

Answer 36

I was in 2nd grade at the time. I remember being let out of school, but not really knowing why. I just knew it was bad. When my mom picked me up, she took me to my grandparent's house and we all gathered around to watch the Tv. I remember my grandmother crying, it broke my heart. I remember my uncle Mike (retired FDNY firefighter due to injury) leaving the house with puffy eyes because he didn't know if my uncle John, who was also a firefighter, was working that day, and he was going to go look for him. The next day i had found out that Uncle Mike and my grandfather found his truck but John was already in the towers. I never got to see my uncle John again, but i am proud of him and love him and miss him very much.

Answer 37

I was woke by a woman who was hysterically screaming - we have been attacked.I then turned on the TV, saw what was happening and called some of my Family in the Military to find out the truth, because I couldn't believe anyone had actually attacked the US mainland

Answer 38

I was a senior in high school and I usually had got a ride from my neighbors house to school and seen the first plane on the TV waiting for them to get ready and then once I got to school they announced the second plane hit. It was a very somber day. I remember their being a ridiculous line to get gas that day, some places even running out of gas.

Answer 39

Im a Brit and I was watching the news when the second plane hit. It may sound a bit callous but I thought now the USA knows what terrorism feels like,theyre bound to stop the funding and arms going to the IRA-and thats what happened.

Answer 40

I was waking up having come down with the flu THAT very morning.



When I heard about the Anthrax I actually thought I had come down with that!



It was BAD flu that last like two weeks.



I woke up sick as a dog to a 61" TV screen with Manhattan just covered with smoke, and my thought immediately went to that guy that wore a Christmas hat that had bombed the WTC a few years earlier... but with a much smaller bomb.



I knew they were related immediately.

Answer 41

I was helping a realtor on one of his houses and came across NBC , a fire was in one of the twin towers, reports was confusing, then a few minutes later it was confirm a plane hit one of the towers , as the report was going on a flash came from the second tower and it was on fire confirm even a picture of the plane hitting one of the towers as the reports was going on could see where the twin towers started to shake all of a sudden one of the towers came down then minutes later the second tower came down, smoke and dust everywhere, later , on it was confirm how many people lost their lives mainly emergency workers, then it was told one hit the pentagon and another crash in Penn. { those are the true heroes in america} , right now as of 2014 america needs to be on high alert the best time to attack is during the holidays, never let our guard down there will always be a threat , let's all hope the constant threat in america will soon disappear and we all can live in peace

Answer 42

I was driving across the college campus where I worked. I also was listening to a scanner and hearing unbelievable comments about airplanes crashing into buildings. I rarely go anywhere without a scanner since that. The practice for me actually goes back further than that.

Answer 43

I had overslept that day and was late for my retail job. After I called work to say that I would be late I was walking down the stairs and my mom was screaming at me saying "They attacked, they attacked us. We are at war". She wasn't making any sense so I asked her to show me what she was talking about. I stood there watching in horror as the second plane went in.



A couple of years later I got a job working for a mutual funds firm. She had a job in one of the big stock market firms in one of the towers. She said that she was coming into work late that day and as she got out of the subway she saw the first plane going in and just got right back on the train. Her best friend wasn't so lucky. She was the first person to jump from the towers. So sad. :(

Answer 44

I was living in Hawaii at the time, working at a Psychiatric Hospital and my husband was Air Force, we were awakened by a phone call from my husband's command recalling him to duty, the base went on lock down as the reality set in for my little family. Of course, living on a military base, being a Vet of the Air Force myself, the attack hit to the heart of those that defend this country. I felt so sick as I watched the footage of the towers and news casts that day, my body trembled with anger, and grief and fear. I will never forget the trembling of my soul for my countrymen and women who fell that day. As hard as that was, it was compounded by the conversation I had with my husband just hours before regarding divorce. I figured out with the time difference that the towers were hit about the same time as I told my husband I was divorcing him. So, that day is a double shot of devastation for me. My life was and never will be the same. That day my life crumbled to the ground in so many ways, as did this country's level of confidence in protecting American soil.

Answer 45

I was busy performing security related functions at a Job Corps in Texas, when a student asked me if I had just heard the news. I said " what news?" Well, I rushed back from patrol to see the news.... the rest is history.

Answer 46

My best friend was celebrating her 4th birthday 13 years ago today Or yesterday in the UK.. I don't think she really knew or understood the tragedy at that age...

Answer 47

I had just recently turned four. As soon as I heard the news, I gathered an army of my fellow babies and toddlers to help fight back against Al Qaeda and the terrorists. By the time our scooters had made it to the twin towers, it was too late. Too many people had died and my army of babies were crying. It was a sad day.

Answer 48

I was on a city bus. I knew something had happened, that something big had happened on the news but was way too busy to pay attention to the t.v. and had to rush out. Then on the city bus I found out what that big news was when I heard people talking about it. I was shocked. Never in a million years did I think something like that would happen.

Answer 49

Discussing how that day the U.S. air force top fighter jets was doing a live test in the Tri-state area N.Y. Conn. Jersey of the latest radar system in our history.

AND NO ONE PICKED THIS UP???????????? What's the story?

How sad for all the people killed.

Answer 50

I did some channel hopping, and some people were still saying it had been a small plane. However, they had some closer shots, and I was beginning to realize that given the scale of the WTC, the hole had to be way bigger than most private planes.

Answer 51

I was very confused. Didn't know what everybody looked so distraught for! lolz i was four years old and I had no idea what the twin towers were but they sounded really cool so my daddy tells me they were burning down and I said "So what! tell the firefighters to make it go away!" haha i thought everyone just forgot to think of that or something

Answer 52

I was in 1st grade, class began and we said the pledge of allegiance and then the principle made an announcement that everyone needs to go home, so my mom took me home, and then watched the t.v ALL DAY until like 10 p.m. 1st grade minds are underdeveloped so I was confused about the story. All I saw on tv were crowds of people , crying, smoke and just chaos

Answer 53

It was 2nd grade, and I remember it visibly. My dad woke me up, and as I was rubbing the sleep out of my eyes trying to push him away, he told me that I needed to get up. Unfamiliar sound of our main tv on max volume was playing in the living room. I was led out to the sight of 9/11 being covered on our news channel. And I will never forget as I watched an airplane crash into that big, tall building, my dad whispering, "today is a day you will never forget."

Answer 54

I was 15. A sophomore in high school, and living in Alaska. The time zone meant it happened very early my time. The tower fell as I was brushing my teeth getting ready for school, watching it on my grandmother's TV in her bedroom.

Answer 55

I was working at IBM.. but outside sitting in my car listening to the radio while having a smoke.

the first plane had hit already and while i was listening the 2nd plane hit..

I was hoping it was some kind of cruel joke but I knew it wasn't.



my father in law was up here from brasil... he got on a flight home as soon as he could as he said he'd rather die in his home country.. (he suspected things to get a lot worse I guess)

Answer 56

He wrote me a beautiful poem that he created on his own. It said things like I love you truly, you are the most beautiful women in the world to me, and I would be lost without you. After I read it and cried, he got down on one knee and proposed to me. The best part was that he handmade everything from the box, to the poem, to the planning of the location. He proposed to me last summer and we will be getting married next spring.

Answer 57

id like to propose at outside the Taj Mahal,then on a plane to EGYPT and spend the rest of the honeymoon in or near the valley of the kings in a 5 star hotel.

Answer 58

I was working in southern England. It was mid-afternoon in our time. When somebody announced, with a slight sense of drama "They have bombed the twin towers" I did not know which towers, in which city, in which country, they were talking about. I did not know about the tall towers in New York that were apparently such an icon for many Americans.

Answer 59

I heard it on the radio on the way to high school. I thought the radio hosts were buzzing about a new action movie. I remember hearing a lot of yelling and panicked voices.

Answer 60

I was in Arlington, VA, a suburb of Washington D.C. and I was getting ready to go downtown and sight-see. Later, I was going to fly home.

No sight-seeing, but a lot of buss-riding and looking out the window, so I saw other sights, a large part of the U.S. on my way back to the Rockies.

Answer 61

I remember watching two buildings that were smoking. I was 6.

Answer 62

I live in the UK so it was early afternoon here when the news hit. I remember I was in a sports shop trying to buy some new trainers (you call them sneakers) for my son who was about 8 at the time. We were the only ones in the shop and they had a TV on in the corner. I can remember looking at those pictures and not believing what I was seeing.



Of course it was all over the news by the time we got home.

Answer 63

I was at work doing normal things. Then other another worker ask me have I heard what happened.

Answer 64

poolside getting my tan-on at prince sultan airbase saudi arabia. the giant voice system announced that a small aircraft (cessna) hit one of the towers in new york, didnt think much of it. later, as i left the pool and entered the recreation facility - there it was ... all over the news with about a million people gathered around the tv - - such an eerie silence ...

Answer 65

I was in Fresno, California. I'm 16 and 13 years ago I was 3 years old. I don't remember a lot but my parents told me that my dad just got home from work, we ate dinner and watch the news. 9/11 attacked by terrorist and George W. Bush giving a speech of those who didn't make it.



I felt sorrow to those who died, if the US government ask me to fight in the middle east... I would.

Answer 66

I got to this one a little late but I was too young to understand the news reports and all but I remember it was just a scary time and nobody could understand what really had happened.

Answer 67

I remember walking into Sid Smith hall at the University of Toronto where I was a student. It had a huge TV screen at least 15 feet long and everyone was gathered there watching. I thought 'Why are they showing Die Hard at Sid Smith and at 9 in the morning?'. I didn't pay much more attention to it and went to order my transcripts for grad school in Europe.

I think it was that evening when I got home and turned on the TV that I saw what had happened. But I didn't watch the TV too long. For some reason I wasn't interested, mainly because I was moving to Europe at the end of the year anyway. It wasn't until a few years ago that I actually watched the entire thing on the Youtube movie 'Loose Change'. The fact I didn't watch the 911 footage repeatedly throughout the following days was probably good because I was able to think through it critically later on without much emotion attached that would otherwise sway my opinion. I don't believe that 9/11 is as it seems. There are too many inconsistencies, but that's just my opinion.

Answer 68

I was at a conference, so I was in a hotel room. I turned on the TV and thought "oh, it looks like the furnace blew up in the World Trade Center". Then when I was WATCHING on TV, a plane hit the second tower. I figured out pretty quickly it wasn't a furnace fire.

Answer 69

I was on the phone with my brother. We both happen to have the same news channel on the television. We thought it was such a weird accident when the first plane hit, but after the second one hit, we knew this was no accident.



We freaked out because our sister just moved to NYC the day before and was to begin her new job at the trade center that fatal Tuesday morning. We did not know whether we were watching our sister die before our eyes or not. If she was safe or dead or not. It was a terrifying feeling to think she may be suffering, stuck in an elevator or burning to death as we watched. Once the buildings collapsed, our hearts collapsed as well. We were panic struck and just waited and waited and waited. We could not reach her, so our minds soared with fright.



At 3pm, 6 1/2 hours after the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, we got a call from her to let us know that her movers were a day late and she was not at the Trade Center as her first day of work was changed to Wednesday. However, she was traumatized because she was there in the street at the Trade Center and witnessed bodies falling from the towers and making a loud sound as they struck the ground.



She was a victim of those terrorist attacks because since then she has Post Traumatic Shock Syndrome and still, to this day, flinches at loud noises. She is very jumpy and often suffers from anxiety attacks and self medicates with alcohol. Her life has never been the same since that day.



When she was outside the Trade Center and witnessed those people jumping, she was shaken and walked away. Soon, very soon after, the first tower collapsed and she had to run for her life. She experienced the "storm" of the collapsed building and was pulled inside a Burger King by someone helping people. When she composed herself, she was missing a shoe and was filthy dirty from the building dust that swept through the city.



The next day or so, on the news, I saw some ignorant people in the Middle East in a crowd, cheering as one guy burned the American Flag, the flag was made of synthetic fibers and it melted on him and I laughed to see him get burned.

Answer 70

Sh*ting my diaper.

Answer 71

i was in art class and found out the second it happened because the teacher used to put on some classical radio station and then it went to breaking news, i remember everyone thought it was an accident until the 2nd plane hit the other tower

Answer 72

I just woke up and was laying in bed and switched on the tv just in time to see the second plane crash crash into the tower.

Answer 73

I was in work in an office in Dublin. New York is five hours behind us. Our manager noticed the on line news, and he called out to us to watch it. We thought he was talking about another prank, because of the guy whose parachute got hung up on the Statue of Liberty the day before. But we gathered around his screen in silence as no one wanted to be watching this on their own.



When the second plane hit a tower, I rang my youngest sister - she works in New York. The cellphone system was overloaded, of course. Texted. Waited. I was so relieved to hear back from her later that day. She was okay, very shocked, and knew two people who had lost someone close.



We spent the day working and checking on line news regularly. It was horrifying. Most Irish people have relatives in America. It was worse for us than going through a local bomb scare in a way. After work I went to give blood - and met others doing the same. There was so little we could do to help.

Answer 74

I was 3 years old and so I didn't know what was going on.

Answer 75

I was not in New York City but in the Bay Area in California. As a nine year old kid at the time, I remember going to the school bus with my dad on the cold morning and the bus driver told my dad to go turn on the TV because a terrorist attack occurred in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I went to school as planned anyways while my dad ran back to the house to see what's going on. My third-grade teacher turned on the TV the moment I step into her classroom after I just got off the bus. The TV was on all the time and the whole classroom was glued to the TV's report of 9/11, watching in horror and disbelief, for hours. Every other class I got into, every TV turned onto the news of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon being burned up. When we saw the WTC come tumbling down like a deck of cards falling down, we were so shocked and angered what had happened.



I never forget the news stations like CNN, Fox News, ABC news, KRON 4 (Bay Area Station) and others constantly show the tragedy of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon basically all week whether at home or anyway.



To our generation, 9/11 is the Pearl Harbor of terrorism in the 21st century.

Answer 76

i was at school in class i was in the elementary grade back then not high-school yet

Answer 77

I was so close to being born but I am still hurt by what people can do to this day

Answer 78

I was a freshman in high school. It was a late start day so I didn't have to be to class till 10:40. I was sitting at the computer playing a game when my mom shouted that a plane had hit the twin towers. At that time I didn't think much of it after the initial, "that sucks for the people who died or were injured," and went back to my game.



The second plane hit just as I had gotten to school. All of the TVs were tuned into CNN. Some of the kids in my school were crying and others like my self were in shock. We didn't know what was going on or what to think about it all. Once classes started the TVs were all turned off... for about 5-10 minutes a period to take role and turn in assignments.



It was surreal.

Answer 79

I was still in grade school at the time. I was doing school work (I was homeschooled) when my dad called us from work. My mom picked up the phone. I remember her saying something like "Right now? In New York?" then telling me and my sister to follow her to the living room to watch the news. The first plane had already hit by the time we turned it on. I remember my mom started crying. Then I saw the other plane crash. Something I'll never forget.

Answer 80

watching a movie on tv.... then it abruptly changed to 9/11 live

Answer 81

I was wiring a plug in a hallway in an apartment complex and someone told me about the first plane.



I went to a apartment and asked to come in and look at the news, that was when I saw the second plane,



and I wondered how someone got a film of that. then I realized it was hitting the other building an I thought



what is going on.



I didn't find out the whole story until later that night.

Answer 82

I was in the Marine Corps at the time, stationed in 29 Palms. My wife called me out of the bathroom as I was preparing for duty to show me the TV. We're both from Virginia and her dad worked at the Pentagon, which we heard was hit as well, but had no details. Fortunately we later found that he wasn't there that day and instead was at the office in DC. Usually i would wait for a cab to take me to base but I had our roommate drive me instead. When I got there, we were all strategically positioned outside of buildings, all vehicles had to be parked a minimum distance from all buildings, and we had to patrol and check all closets/waste bins every 15-30 mins. Then a news report came in about a possible bomb at LAX. Every little thing was treated as though the entire nation was under attack. We assumed we'd be going to the armory and getting on a plane that very day. Very hectic.

Answer 83

I was a new mum and thought the news flash was a trailer to some amazing new film. It was shocking and scary, knowing what people could do and that I had a young baby, who was brought into this new scary world.

Answer 84

I was actually doing time in King County Jail and was watching the TV in the trustee dorm when the second plane hit the tower~ Somebody said 'I think that is special effects! I said No, I thinque that is real!

Answer 85

Freaky and creepy. I had had my table tv disconected because I didn't want to pay their outrageous prices. But that morning loud and clear the cable tv worked fine and showed everything. Couple hours later my husband called to say his brother was safe (he works for the CIA) and I guess was to be the second targeted building, but the peeople on the plane gave their lives and stopped the terrorists. My cable tv never worked after that.

Answer 86

I was on the school bus going to school. I was seven years old. My mother had noticed that my brother couldn't sleep the night before. He was tossing and turning before he decided to just stay up and watch t.v. Before I left he said how the day didn't feel right, told me to be careful. I was only a kid, so I was like, okay, that's weird but whatever. As I got on the school bus and we drove off, I put on my headphones and listened to my CD player. I noticed that the bus driver said something but I didn't catch it in time. I took off my earphones and asked my friend next to me when she told me to hush. I did, and then after a moment of silence we went on. I asked my friend again and she told me two towers in New York came down. I was too young to really understand the seriousness of it all, but I do now.

Answer 87

I was actually only 4, but I do remember when it happened. I was at preschool, and I remember my teachers talking about it, but school wasn't let out or anything. And later that night I remember watching it on the news and thinking "What's the big deal, it couldn't have killed that many people"

Answer 88

i was in diapers

Answer 89

I was in my college philosophy class

Answer 90

wasn't born yet

Answer 91

I was watching it on tv as it unfolded. I was confused and bemused, trapped but not amused. The awe of the law who gazed at what they saw. To say the least..

Answer 92

I was coming home from kindergarden, and I walked in my front door to see the TV showing the WTC on fire.. and my mom said she had no idea what was going on. Eventually more and more information came in... and then later that night we heard a group of F-16 fighter jets go wizzing by our house, waking us up in the middle of the night..

Answer 93

I was 3 years old o-o.

Answer 94

I was at school in kindergarten, I don't remember much except my teacher explaining to the class what happened. I also remember listening to the radio when I got home because we didn't have a tv and my mother crying and everyone else was dead silent. I remember some of bush's "we will not forget" speech on tv at my grandmother's house. and I remember the footage of people cleaning up the debris.

Answer 95

I was still in bed until my brother woke me up (I lived in Los Angeles, CA, at the time so New York was about 3 hours ahead of us).

Answer 96

I was teaching a class of emotionally disturbed children

Answer 97

I was 2 months old then. I was probably sleeping because I was the kind of lazy baby.

Answer 98

I was at home in Florida eating breakfast and I seen the reports on TV.

Answer 99

I was in school and even though we were no where near it Massachusetts in fact..We were on lock down.The staff had us all on a lockdown procedure.

Answer 100

I was a little baby and I was sleeping.

Answer 101

In my office on ......... .........joint.services base, I had a radio tuned to a local talk station. We went into an immediate base wide lockdown and assumed a war footing.

Answer 102

I was about 2 1/2 years old.

Answer 103

i was watching it live.

Answer 104

Getting ready for school. I was very scared.

Answer 105

being born

Answer 106

At that time, I was only ten years old and I didn't know anything about that. But I knew that my parents were very sad.

Answer 107

I was getting ready to go to class (college). I couldn't believe that it happened. they cancelled classes and sent everyone home.

Answer 108

being born O_O

Answer 109

my mom was changing my diaper lol

Answer 110

Going to the dentist.

Answer 111

I live in NH so I am relatively close to the site. I was in a truck with my now Exhusband driving to a place in Massachusetts when it came over the radio. seemed like a freak accident, then we heard about the second plane, all I could think about is that we were under attack and my kids, and my guns were back in NH, will never forget that day. nor will I forget the day Kennedy was shot

Answer 112

I was at work and was beckoned to the television after the first tower was hit and before the second tower fell. Within 20 minutes, I received a call-to-duty from the Flotilla and within an hour and a half, I was in uniform and onboard a vessel patrolling outside the restricted zone on the Gulf coast of Florida, protecting the nuclear power plant at Crystal River. The next day, duty was at the Port of Tampa, keeping any ships from entering the harbor. The word of a terrorist attack got to us very quickly.

Answer 113

I was 6 and in school. My mom just picked me up and I heard about a bad fire on the radio. Then I got to my aunt's house and watched the towers collapse on TV.

Answer 114

I was in 5th grade. I remember the whole school being dragged into the library (it was a VERY tiny school) and they made us watch the tv. But I don't remember them saying anything about what had happened. I think they were mainly doing it so they could watch the footage and still have us supervised. I thought nothing of it. My parents had tried making me watch the news before and I hated all the tragic things, I figured this was just another one. I came and told my parents I think something happened on the news. I knew my parents liked to watch the news and know what was going on, but we didn't have a tv. She said her friend had called and told her as well, but I don't think we really knew what happened until later. I knew what had happened was a national tragedy and that everything happening was sad, but I was a kid so I didn't comprehend it. It wasn't until everyone started talking about these horrible people called terrorists and starting a war. My 3 sisters had just joined the Navy and were being shipped off. I was suddenly terrified and conjuring images I've seen from movies. The weird part was, I refused to ask my parents if they were involved or shipped somewhere pedestrian. I just told myself over and over that they were somewhere awesome that I'd be jealous of. But sometimes when people would mention the war I would suddenly get panicked.

Answer 115

I was in first grade I think. When my mom explained to me at school what happened, I got scared. I think I was afraid it could happen where we lived. I was confused because I didn't know there was evil in the world like that.

Answer 116

I was 10 months old. I have no memories of the day, but my mother told me about it. She told me that she took me to play group, and they got a call with the news and everyone went home. It gives me shivers to think about this.

Answer 117

I was getting ready for school and went to the basement to watch tv. Tv showed the video clip of the plane that crashed into the twin towers. Scariest watch I've seen. Was in 2nd or 3rd grade when this happened. My prayers go out to the families and those lost

Answer 118

Being a 6 month old.

Answer 119

I was a Junior in High School, on my way to early morning Seminary, a religious educational class we take before school at 6:00am (Mormon). My dad had the radio on and the news came on that one of the towers had been hit. Now up until this point I've actually never knew what the Twin Towers were. I've only seen 'em on tv and never knew what they were.



When we left for school, my mom picked us up and with a serious look on her face she told us that the second tower was hit and that this was something very very serious. I went home for a few minutes before school to watch it all go down on tv. Messed up.



I bet that's not the last time something like that's gonna happen. I bet something else that's big is gonna go down within the next ten years and we'd better be ready for it.

Answer 120

I was young and when I actually heard about it was in art class in Elementary school, I wasn't totally aware of anything, really nothing at all, my mind was everywhere.



So, I didn't realize how much of a dreadful tragedy it really was, it passed me by.

Answer 121

I was really young, so I don't remember

Answer 122

I was in NY planning on visiting the WTC that day to have lunch with my aunt who worked for Merrill Lynch. I was in her home watching television when the news came on that an airplane had crashed into the building.

Answer 123

i was 11 months old so.....

Answer 124

I was 20 and a junior in college and I was getting ready for school. I had just woken up and I walked into the living room, where my brother was glue to the TV and I was very confused. I looked just in time to see the second plane hit. I felt numb, like I was having a bad dream and my brother said somberly, "We're in a state of war."



I was so sad, but whenever I witness or experience a tragedy, I also feel a strong riptide of numbness that drowns the sadness. I just kept feeling overcome by the sensation that I was having a bad dream and just felt numb.

Answer 125

Thirteen years ago when the tragedy happened on 9/11, what I had been doing thirteen years ago that day, was my normal morning routine. I had just come in from walking up the hill after seeing my nine year old daughter off to school. I had walked into the house, and turned on the television, to the CNBC Business News channel, and was watching the live reports, when I learned about the first plane. Then as I watched live, I saw the second plane go into the second building, basically watching the tragedy unfold in front of me. My girlfriend (who passed away two years ago) had laid down to get some sleep. It took a few minutes after the second plane had hit, for me to wake my girlfriend, when I did I said she needed to get up, and watch the television, that the Twin Towers had been hit by planes.



She got up watched a few minutes, and called her aunt, and woke her up, and then told her to turn on her television who a few minutes later decided to get her two granddaughters from school, we ask her to get ours as well. Which it was just well that we did, since the local police were there, monitoring things with many parents being worried, wanting to get their children home and safe. We weren't that far by air from Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in western Maryland. We discussed that as Fort Detrick Army Base, wasn't all that far from us. It may have been a target for the plane that went down in Shanksville, which is a large CDC research, and testing center. When our daughter was dropped off at home, we explained to her what had happened.



However being somewhat cognizant of history, this wasn't the first terrorist attack in the United States. But it was the largest attack ever, and ranks as one of the most deadly on a world wide basis. However it wasn't the first attack on Wall Street, there had been a terrorist attack almost eighty one years year before on September sixteenth 1920. Also another attack that can not be forgotten is the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995 (which killed one hundred eighty seven people). So terrorism was actually nothing new in the United States. However again what happened on 9/11/01, is and was one of the most deadly attacks anywhere. Since the attacks the lives lost as a result during, and in the years since has climbed to nearly three thousand. With some dying since that day, as a result from the after affects of the debris inhaled.



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There were some non answers you most likely never saw, as well as some others, which were not appropriate, or insulting. But then there are those who don't take a question such as this seriously either. I also caught a few grammatical/spelling errors, in my answer, that I wanted to correct.

Answer 126

Being born. I don't really like celebrating my birthday much because of that.

Answer 127

I was on the way home from school (I was 7) and nobody told us anything which was for the best.

Answer 128

Even though I live in Europe, it was a horrible tragedy. I was 5 years old, and I remember waking up to my parents' loud reactions from the news on TV... sad :(

Answer 129

i was in second year of secondary school in ireland and we were not yet back after the summer holidays because our school was getting renovations done which were running behind time so we had an extra week off school. i was in our kitchen at home eating lunch and watching oprah with my other siblings when a news flash came on and we saw what was going on. we then saw live the second plane go into the world trade centre. and it was weird my aunt who was visiting said it was osama bin laden who did it right away how she knew i don't know i think she remembered hearing something about him years ago.

Answer 130

Well I was in first grade in Canada, so I was at school. I later learned my mom wanted to bring me home when she heard about it. I didn't even know anything had happened until years later.

Answer 131

I was in pre-school. I just remember in the morning a lot of screaming parents were coming to grab their kids in fear of schools being targeted. When I asked my mom what happened she just said "bad people crashed some planes". The day is just a blur as I was so young.

Answer 132

I was only 6 when it happened so I didn't know that there was such an incident until I got older ><

Answer 133

I was just 7 years old back then, when I turned on the TV I was shocked to see two buildings up in flames

Answer 134

When it actually happened I was on a plane flying to crete.

Answer 135

My former husband woke me from a dead sleep and said "The towers went down" I staggered sleepy eyed into the living room, pointed at the screen and thought "this looks like a professional demolition". First instinct, then - "wait were there PEOPLE in there?!" All took place in my head within two seconds. Then I had the sense to cry.

Answer 136

I was trying to watch cheese tv when a plane crashing through a building showed on the channel instead so I changed channel and it was the same thing. I thought it was a movie.

Answer 137

I had a personal disconcerting occurrence that day; it phased me. I was staying with a friend who did not have TV. We both walked over to the neighbor as we do from time to time and just as I started watching the TV there, I saw what I thought to myself was part of a commercial but as I continued to watch, to my horror the falling buildings were real. My spirit died within me when my two friends said that there should have been children in there too. The callousness angered me and I will never forget. I had been inside that building about April or May 2000, I think there was a 'Starbucks' in there too. The world has gotten worst since that sad event.

Answer 138

nothing. didn't give a damn about it and don't understand why people were so upset about it. it doesn't bother me, why do people care for people they don't know and have nothing to do with?



when school was let out for the day (7th grade) i was happy that there was no more school. my parents found my happiness inappropriate and i didn't understand.



7 years ago i went to buy a rifle on 9/11/07 and due to computer error i got a $200 rifle for $70, since that day i've made it a habit to buy a gun on 9/11. and each time, its a computer error. cool.



9/11 still means nothing to me. besides the day i should go buy a gun on.

Answer 139

I had just begun student teaching a couple weeks previously. As part of my training, I would occasionally be invited into other teachers' classrooms to observe how they taught. We were in the middle of a Math lesson when another teacher came in and advised Mr. Hearn to turn on the TV because two planes had just flown into the WTC. The teacher promptly turned on the TV. I remember that my first reaction was one of annoyance that he would interrupt valuable teaching time for a news bulletin.



There was no way I could have imagined the magnitude and horror of that event until I saw what unfolded on the screen in front of the classroom.



What was particularly haunting is what an absolutely clear, sparkling day it was, the irony of which was not lost on my 6th grade students.

Answer 140

i was going downtown chicago to buy drugs i was listening to howard stern and when he first said that a plane hit the tower i thought he was joking i got stuck in traffic and was still listening and looked over to the car next to me and the lady was crying when i told people on the street what happened i dont think they belevied me i couldnt wait to get home i watched all day on the tv and cried for days it affected so much i still think about to this day

Answer 141

I was on my way to school, I was only in the first grade when it happened. I remember my Grandmother stopping in her tracks to turn the volume up on the television and my brother and I watching everything unfold. Being as young as I was, I didn't quite understand what was happening and why it was so important. That whole day at school, every teacher in the building had their televisions on so that all of their students could watch what was happening. Again, being that I was so young, I was pretty lost but it was a very sad and quiet day.

Answer 142

I was in school

Answer 143

I was 6 years old, I was wearing my school uniform after school in my aunts house waiting for my mom to go pick me up. Before it happened I was playing with my cousin in her room wen my aunt started screaming and we came out running and found my mom and my aunt watching the news and how the 2nd plane crashed into the towers.

Answer 144

I was about to be 4 weeks old and i probably was sleeping, my mother pulled my sister's out of school and my dad came home early (this is what i was told) and the whole day nothing but those news reports were on

Answer 145

I was a 3 year old baby oblivious to the world

Answer 146

I don't even remember anything. I was maybe 2 or 3 at the time.

Answer 147

I was just born

Answer 148

I live in Australia, so due to the difference in time zones it was actually early morning on September 12 when I learnt about it, my dad woke me up and told me briefly what had happened; needless to say it came as quite a shock. You get used to hearing about war torn countries in the middle East, but to hear it happen in America is a very sombre thought. I spent a good part of the day watching NEWS reports on what happened.

Answer 149

I was in 10th grade geometry class in the morning, I want to say around 10AM, when the principal came over the loud speaker and announced that there had been a terrorist attack in NYC, which was 1/2 hour away from where I live. I didn't understand what this all meant, at 15 years old I was blissfully ignorant. We had no real classes the rest of the day and the teachers were trying to talk with us about what it all meant. They all did a great job of keeping us panicked students calm. A nearby science room had its TV on and all I saw was a giant hole in the side of one of the towers, just smoldering. I was horrified. I was even more horrified to see people waving for help from the top of the towers. Lots of kids were picked up from school, but my mom thought I'd be safer there (I didn't agree!). I was scared and wanted to leave and be with my family. I did not go to school the next day, I was way too freaked. I will never forget that day.

Answer 150

I was 2 months old and had just moved from England to SA

Answer 151

Delivering early morning papers. We heard it on our 6am news in Australia.

Answer 152

I had just started the 4th grade when I got news of it. Our principal announced it through the P.A. system, so we all hid in the clinic bathroom.

Answer 153

I don't remember.

Answer 154

I remember it clearly I believe I was in the first grade and I was trying to watch "pokemon" and the channel they usually gave it on was showing the disaster that I would later know as nine eleven...being that I was so young I had little understanding about what was taking place so I began getting frustrated and saying "why arent they giving pokemon "...I remember my mom looking at the television with concern and saying "something bads happening and there showing it to you".we both sat and watch the disaster continue to unfold in front of us...I will NEVER forget that day.. NEVER

Answer 155

Cooking something special for my love one.

Answer 156

I was in my mother's stomach the day of . And was born less than 24 hours after it happened.

Answer 157

I had just finished eating, stacked the soiled dishes in the sink, warmed me up a cup of coffee, went in the living room, turned on the tv to watch some news, and saw the nightmarish hell unfolding before my eyes on the television. The vision is still very plain and clear in my eyes and mine as if it happened today..

Answer 158

i was at work.

Answer 159

I was walking into math class my senior year of high school. The teacher had the tv on I had just left ag business and we had no clue the first tower had been hit. Our class along with the others getting out of gym were the only students being loud. We had not seen anything or heard anything up to that point.

Answer 160

celebrating my 3rd birthday, born in 09/11/98

Answer 161

reading google news

Answer 162

I was only 1 years old but my mom was with me watching the news and my dad was at work watching the news.

Answer 163

I was finishing up a 48 hour gaming session of Dungeons and Dragons, Battletech and MtG. Someone had turned on the television to zone out and we just heard "holy ****" from the other room. Another friend went to see what was going on and our last game was cut short when he ran back into the room we were in and made the announcement that, and I quote, "there's a big ****ing hole in the world trade center".



The rest of the day was just zoned out watching it happen.

Answer 164

I was born just 11 days before it all happened but when I was older I learned all about... It's so terrifying for everyone.... When I was reading what other people wrote I felt that they were in constant fear

Answer 165

I started watching the coverage after the first plane hit the WTC. I watched the second hit as soon as the networks got video.



Probably the most horrifying thing I've ever seen.



I worked nights, and my wife worked days. I was home with my daughter all day. It seemed like it was literally seven or eight hours from the time the planes hit until the towers collapsed, but it was only a couple of hours. The entire f*cking day dragged by in slow motion.

Answer 166

I was in London UK, on vacation; watching tv with my children. I thought that I was looking at a scene from a science fiction movie!

Answer 167

I was in a hotel in Leavenworth Kansas recovering from a crack binge. I lay in bed listening to the news thinking that I was dreaming until my man woke me up. Just as i am watching tv I watch the second plane hit.

Answer 168

I learned about it only 3 years ago in 7th grade

Answer 169

I am a New Yorker, who use to work in the WTC complex......in WTC 5. (The short black building, at the base of the Towers. ) But in 2001......I was living in Italy......and had a 10 month old son......who I had just put down for his usual 2.30 PM nap.



it was 830 am New York time. 6 hour time difference.



Having 5 minutes to myself finally, I decided to make a cup of tea and turn on a little CNN to see what was going on in the world.



Just as I settled in, with the cup of tea...........that's precisely when they broke in with the first reports of the "accident" in the North tower. I could NOT believe my eyes. Oh my GOD.



I sat there glued to the screen........and as they were filming, LIVE.........I actually watched, LIVE...........from Italy........as the second plane came swooping in, and smashed into the South Tower.



The reporter, who was talking to the camera, with the Towers *behind* him........didn't even see it.



He turned around, and started babbling about a "secondary gas explosion" or something......and I was literally shaking the TV, yelling...........NO YOU IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a f****** 747!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He babbling about gas lines or something.............and I was yelling........



Oh for Gods sake.......someone just rewind the tape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



and finally , someone did apparently.......and the truth started getting reporting.



Then, I tried calling my sister, who worked in the complex........but by then, all the phone lines were jammed.........so I called my Brother.........who hadn't turned on the tv yet, and had no clue.......





so we watched it together.........over the phone.............and just couldn't BELIEVE what we were seeing.



I remember my father-in-law came to the door.........and wanted something, and I just slammed the door in his face..............(Not NOW dammit.......NOT NOW!!!!!!)..........



and went back to the TV.........and then, the first tower fell.



My Brother just dropped the phone.............and the line went dead.



It was un real.............how can anyone forget it?



When the second tower fell.......there were just no words.................



and our sister was in the middle of all that somewhere.



Thank God.........she barely escaped with her life.........but survived horrific ordeals that day, and she's never been the same since. She witnessed, live, first hand, the people jumping to their deaths, and Landing, just feet from where she was standing. In the stampede that followed, she was knocked down and trampled............she still has nightmares.

Answer 170

I was sitting in my first grade classroom probably eating snacks or doing some work. Since I was in a certain part of Florida they thought was going to get attacked next, a lot of kids got checked out. None of us really knew anything or what was going on.

Answer 171

i was playing with toy cars. at a distance i saw the huge smoke where Manhattan was. i wasnt in the incident. but there obviously been way worse attacks compared to this in the middle east. North America has always been a virgin to terrorist attacks. We got penetrated too hard i guess you can say. I kind of find it revolting though how we grief for people we know that died during 9/11 whereas this country has killed thousands of innocents in the middle east. i feel bad for what happened, im just saying this country has done more than a fare share of 'attacks' like this

Answer 172

Recovering from heart surgery

Answer 173

I was in the office, and a customer from Canada called me, and she said that she was so happy she could still reach me. That's when I knew.

Answer 174

I was keeping track of the inconsistencies of activities, stories, manipulations, commerce, and the past events which were indicators of that event.



I was not at all surprised that a confidence game had been performed on the magnitude of celebrating the new millennium on the wrong date.

Answer 175

I was five-ish, in a taxi, crossing the Brooklyn bridge. Me and my mom were on our way into the city, and we saw the plane. It's one of the only memories I had when I was that young. My mom noticed it before I did, and she said something to the Taxi driver, and when it crashed, so many cars jerked to a stop. Everyone was getting out of cars and checking to see if what they saw was real. This lady who'd gotten out of her car was screaming and wailing about her husband and sister, I'm assuming because they'd both worked there. My mom was sobbing because my dad worked in the city as a chauffeur, and I didn't really get it. All the cars going out were clogged to hell, and so many people were speeding to try and get in. The second plane is the one I remember better, it happened so suddenly, people were screaming, and nobody could get through, it was horrible. I started crying because I thought my dad might've gotten hurt, but he was on the other side of the city and he was fine. It was absolutely terrible.

Answer 176

Just learn' in school…bored,tired (sorry!)

Answer 177

I was somewhere over the rainbow.

Answer 178

I was working @ KMart (in the Electronics Dept.) & some customer(s) pointed a plane hitting 1 of the Towers out to me...

Answer 179

13 years ago!..Probably I was shaving.

Answer 180

I was one month old.

Answer 181

I was probably whining for my bottle of milk because I was only 1 year old at the time.

Answer 182

taking a $hit

Answer 183

I was sleeping in my crib while my parent's painted a room for my brother, whom my mother was pregnant with at the time. They had the television on, and my parents just stopped and stared when they realized what happened. Or at least, this is what I was told, a few years later when I old enough to understand.

Answer 184

I merely learned that people got too comfortable.

Answer 185

Probably taking my 3rd dump of the day in my Huggies diapers while watching Teletubbies

Answer 186

I was home sick from school, luckily. Beginning of freshman year, my school was in the city. I get a call from my grandpa and he very somberly tells me turn on the news. We all still thought it was an accident. I looked out the window and saw the black billowing cloud pouring out of downtown. I watched the second plane being engulfed by fire as is melted through the next tower.



I'm getting chills just writing this. It sounds like it's just a story, but that's part of what make it so terrifying.



One collapsed. The cloud, now white, shot out between the other building and all you could see downtown was the other tower, and soon that was gone.



Getting to school became impossible for a while after that. The subways were all shut down as well as the bridges and tunnels. Once they opened there were cops everywhere, often with the bomb dogs. Everyone was in a panic. We couldn't believe it. This never happens in America, not successfully anyway.

Answer 187

i was not in a plane

Answer 188

i was a toddler

Answer 189

I was 3.

Answer 190

I was sleeping

Answer 191

Working on the outside of a house , the owner told us to come in and see Sky news , we couldn't believe what was happening in America , our boss turned up and told us all to go home .

Answer 192

I was studying to become a travel agent. I learned about the attacks when I turned on the TV while I was getting ready to leave home. Incidently, that day's topic was to have been the airline industry.

Answer 193

I was in high school and they interrupted class to show us this.

Answer 194

I was 3 when the 9/11 attacks happened, at the time the event was taking place my parents had no idea what was going on because we were on a flight from the Virgin Islands to Mississippi and I sure couldn't of figured out what was going on because I was too young to understand a tragedy when I seen one. I am very glad that I wasn't in one of the planes that were headed to the places they were going to hit.

Answer 195

I was only 3 when it happened and its one of my strongest and earliest memories. All I remember about it was going downstairs one more and seeing at my mom who was standing in the kitchen in front our of small tv with her hands over her mouth. I could see the footage on the tv screen showing a smoking building against a blue sky. I think I woke up around 10am est that morning so I wasn't up when it actually happened. One plane that was suspected of also being hijacked landed not too far from where I lived in Cleveland Ohio so that was also really scary. I didn't fully understand at the time what was going on but I knew that what was happening was really scary and truly terrible.

Answer 196

I was in the Navy at the time and my ship was deployed over in the Mediterranean. The news about the attacks was announced over the loudspeakers by our captain. I just couldn't believe what I heard. Of course, that meant we were off to the Persian Gulf and we were out there for a few months.

Answer 197

I was on a construction job in Tyson's Corner, VA. The news came over DC101 radio. He was describing what was being broadcast on TV. I never believed a plane could hit a building by accident, no way it was an accident when the second tower was hit. Then there was the plane that hit the Pentagon and the one that crashed in sw PA. At some point we were sent home. "We're under attack" is what one of the bosses said. We took a long, back way home, because I knew the beltway would be grid-locked and if there really was an attack the city and bridges crossing the Potomac would be targets. And I thought "under attack? Who on earth could attack us?" I was thinking more of "invade". There is no army on earth that can invade the US. So I assumed it was a terrorist attack.

Answer 198

13 years ago, I was woken up by my father who thought WW3 was coming. 13 years later, I have learnt that my father had vivid imaginations but none turned out useful.

Answer 199

I was in 1st grade and I remember school being cancelled after we got there and the bus kids were assigned partners (4-5th graders) and we were put on buses and sent home. I really didn't know what happened until we went to a relatives funeral.

Answer 200

My sister and I were 1 years old and my brother got picked up by my mom and we stayed home with our dad or 2 were 15 years old now

Answer 201

I was entering the northern city limits of Panama City Florida on the way to a service call (electronics tech) when the radio commentator reported that a plane had hit one of the towers and then spoke of similar accidents in the past where planes had accidentally hit buildings. Just before I got to my first call the second plane hit, I sit in the parking lot for a few minutes listening to the commentator saying this was apparently not an accident, that it was an attack on the country.

My call was at an Olive Garden restaurant, after completing what I came there to do I sit in the office with the manager and watched the news on her TV for ten/fifteen minutes. Being on the coast there was worries that there might be attacks on coastal facilities; ports, shipyards, air force bases,...went into lockdown mode which cut my day short somewhat.

Answer 202

i was in school. 10th grade. gym class. we hadn't picked our sports yet, so we were sitting on the bleachers.

Answer 203

Not this old chestnut. I was at school

Answer 204

i was in elementary school -second grade- when i heard about the sad tragedy.

Answer 205

13 years ago I was 8 years old.



I was just a kid so I didn't know about it until quite a few years after.



I was in Minnesota, USA back on 09/11/2001 and it was on a Tuesday although since the first plane struck at 9:00 a.m.~ I was probably sleeping or en route to school.



When I learned about it, it was quite shocking. That's full on large-scale terrorism on mainland United States, not something that happens quite often especially in this day and age. Most problems nowadays are internal; crimes by Americans and Police, political problems.

Answer 206

Nothing because I was a little baby and I was learning how to suck my thumb.

Answer 207

I had just came home from tuition and my dad was watching 9/11 LIVE on television..

Answer 208

I was really little at that time and don't remember much. All I remember was that I was watching Elmo when the channel changed to burning buildings. My dad at the time worked nearby the towers, and my mom was freaking out. In the end it turned out that my dad was stuck in traffic and couldn't get to work.

Answer 209

I had worked all night and had started in a little late to pull a day shift . As I was driving up HWY 67 outside of Dallas Texas ,breaking news came on and said a plane had hit the tower

My very words was this is a damn terrorist attack and bet they hit it again or the other one.

I drove on in to work and then told team mates about it and what I thought

Then the second hit was announced

Answer 210

I was living in New Orleans & was taking my dog for his morning walk when one of the neighbors ran out to tell me about a plane that had just hit the first tower.



a week or two earlier a small plane had flown into a bank building in NYC because the pilot got confused & lost in what they called "the skyscraper canyon" & I thought that was what had happened again until the neighbor said "no it was a passenger plane." I got home in time to hear a report of commuters in Alexandria VA calling 911 to report a plane trying to land on the interstate (that was the one that flew into the pentagon) & changed the channel in time to witness the second plane as it flew into the second tower live on the news.



I had to turn off the television & get some fresh air when people started jumping out of the burning building. The cameras didn't shut off right away because I don't think the cameramen realized at first that those were bodies falling from the burning windows. the reporters originally called it "debris" & then one of them said on the air, "oh my god that's not part of the building, that's a person. oh my god, people are jumping out of the building.'

Answer 211

not much... I was 1 year old...

Answer 212

In school in Brooklyn watching a kids movie.

Answer 213

I wathed the whole thing go down after the first plane hit. i was in NYC with my parents for a few days.

Answer 214

I was at school. I was in the 7th grade and I went home for lunch to find my mother, an administrative assistant for the head office of a national bank in Toronto, home because they feared the attackers could be targeting everywhere. I remember watching the news in shock. But I was not affected by the events personally.

Answer 215

I was celebrating my 5th birthday cause i'm born on 11 september

Answer 216

Watching the new while pigging down on TV dinners.

Answer 217

i was 12 and i sow it on news, i was in russia and was shocked and felt sorry for people who died and their relatives

Answer 218

in school

Answer 219

I was on the phone. I lived 12 miles from the Pentagon; my dad lost his best bud there Chuck. We were told to leave our kids at school but I went and got them. It was awful. We tried to shield them from the worst so the TV was mostly off (sound off) when I brought them home. My dad still cries over Chuck. I believe I have been forever traumatized by that day. I don't want people to be hating on anyone, especially Muslims. that's what started it in the first place...hate. People say that they did it because we were prideful but then they decided they had the pride and right to kill us for that. I prayed a lot that day and still do, for comfort to try and understand why we kill each other.The deaths o the firemen and police hit me the worst, and the jumpers. i could not even watch that part.

Answer 220

I'm an Australian and would like to express my gratitude and sympathy to all those who have given a heartfelt and sorrowful account of their recollection of the day when the world stood still in horror and fear. Even in Australia, the news resonated like some sort of sick media joke that defied belief.



Australians watched the reports with trepidation as a wave of disbelief and shrouded smirks spread through the community thinking that this was one gigantic hoax along similar lines to Orson Welles' ''The War of the Worlds''.



Despite living in a major capital city, our power supply was disrupted because of the overload of the network. Neighbours stood in the street asking each other what had happened. Some laughed it off as the huge joke they presumed it to be, while others sat on the ground and prayed.



Tragically, it became apparent that it was not a prank. Magazines and newspapers were recalled to be replaced with editions that provided up-to-date reports. Regular television shows were replaced with the same ugly footage that many still refused to believe. Phone lines were jammed. Even in Australia, there was an eerie silence as groups gathered in front of their TVs to try to find flaws in the "supposed" footage that they refused to believe.



Ultimately, it became clear that this was real, and the silence echoed with solemn faces, a united sense of community, and peaceful observance of each other. Churches were filled with mourners for our beloved allies.



The united grief was tangible and comforting, yet heartbreaking. My deepest sympathies to those who survived it and have to live each day remembering it.

Answer 221

Thirteen years ago....I didn't even know what I was doing cuz I was only 1 year old.

Answer 222

I was home doing my housecleaning, didn't have the tv on. My husband called me from work to tell me that they were letting him come home and to turn the tv on about the planes crashing in New York. Of course I stopped my cleaning and chores. It scared me being myself watching it and wondered Are We at War? With Who? Well I was at home.

Answer 223

I was 7 years old during the second grade in school. My assistant teach was reading a story to the class. Then I heard the tragic news when my father came to pick me up. It was pandemonium.

Answer 224

To be honest I was staring at my teachers tight ***, thinking if it could snap a chop stick in half or not. I bet it could, but then again I could be wrong.

Answer 225

I was in class and my teacher looks shocked when he received a call.

Answer 226

Watching cartoons. I was pissed as hell when they switched off my cartoons for some sshitty news program (I didn't understand what was going on).

Answer 227

I was only two so i was probably watching cartoons or the wiggles

Answer 228

I was too young to know what 9/11 was when it happened 13 years ago (I was 3) I didn't know what it was until I was about 11.

Answer 229

I was in 11th grade in my pre-Calculus class. My teacher turned on the TV and told us to watch because history was unfolding. We were let out of school early a few hours later. I lived in Pennsylvania, and no one was sure whether there were more planes coming. I spent the rest of the day glued to the TV.

Answer 230

I don't remember it happening. In fact, I don't even remember hearing about it on the news. I was only eight years old at the time, and I may have still been in bed when the planes hit.

Answer 231

was a day off from work for me and my son called from his job and said DAD--TURN ON TV...I asked why, what happened ? He said JUST TURN IT ON, and hung up. I was on line chatting with a friend from Australia, so I logged off and turned the TV--rest is history.

Answer 232

I was just coming out of my mother's womb.And that's the truth.I was born on 11th September at 10 in the morning.Also what 's quite interesting is that I'm from Pakistan and our leader dies on the same date in 1948.

Answer 233

I was about 14 years old. In those days we lived on the farm. We'd get home from school and get snacks and then go sit by the tv to watch tv programs. I can't remember exactly what channel we watched but at some stage we saw the breaking news about the twin towers. When we were watching the one tower was still standing, but later of course that one also fell. I used to have a diary and I wrote in my diary how scary it was that the towers fell like that. It just seemed so surreal, especially to a fourteen year old. oh ps: I am not American.

Answer 234

woking

Answer 235

The first time I was coming out of New Jersey where I dropped off a load of merchandise. Paul Harvey was on the radio and he was interrupted with the news of the bombing. The second time (9/11) I was pulling into the (yard) trucking company and heard it on the radio. Had just enough time to get home and see the second plane crash into the second tower in real time. Didn't get any sleep that day.

Answer 236

I was in school. It seemed like a normal day. The teacher was getting ready to start teaching our math class, when suddenly; "Turn on the T.V.! Turn on the T.V!" And I saw those clips of that plane hitting the first tower...I couldn't believe it...My 7 year old self thought that it was a movie...

Answer 237

I was home from school ( 6th grade). I turned on the TV and saw the news. At first I thought it was a really awful movie and thought it was going to be boring. I changed the channel ,but it was on every channel. Every single channel was showing the same thing and I was freaking out. How could this be real? Why would anyone do that? What about all those people ? I called my mom at work and then my dad ( b/c he lives in NYC). They both were watching the news and were in shock. My sister was bummed (3rd grade) b/c tomorrow was her birthday and no no one was going to remember. She's still just as self centered. Three months later I flew to my Dad's and was very proud to fly . I wasn't going to give in to terrorists. One of my uncles actually worked in the twin towers and was supposed to be on one the planes that had turned around and crashed into the towers. He was late to the airport and thankfully missed the plane. Very surreal moment for him. I actually have a photograph of the towers from the 90's. I'm about five or so and the towers are in the background. When I think about it it's weird. I've seen them in person, I"ve been in them in person and I've been to ground zero.





It's also the day that ruined traveling by air. Flying in an airplane used to be a very exciting thing. Your family could see you off as you boarded or greet you as you arrived. You can't do that anymore. Your knees knock into the seats. You have to arrive at least two hours prior to your flight. No more rushing off to the airport half an hour before your flight takes off. Going through security is such a hassle and the TSA interpret the rules anyway they please. What's fine in La Guardia isn't in JFK. Your contact solution is okay to bring with you in Chicago ,but not in Arizona. They do what they want and they suck. It's whatever they feel like. Any pleasure in flying died that day.

Answer 238

I was homeless living in a hostel. I saw it on TV in the common room around lunchtime (UK time). I remember everyone was quiet for once, and one of the members of staff kept repeating "It's World War three! It's World War three!" because people thought World War three was going to break out .

I have a job and a good life now but I will never forget that day. No-one in the world would have , could have predicted that people would fly planes into buildings. No-one.

Answer 239

I'm in Alaska so it was still early morning.The morning of 9/11/01, I was getting up to go to work when the song God Bless America came on the radio. That was odd. Then they told World Trade Center in New York City had been hit with a jetliner. A few minutes later, I got a call from the principal where I worked saying to turn on the tv because school had been cancelled. There I watched in horror as Tower 2 fell. As the horrible day progressed, we learned more attacks occurred.



National airspace over the entire US and Canada was closed to all civilian planes, both commercial and private, for several days. It was eerily quiet since we are used to hearing all kinds of airplanes flying overhead all day. This was a hardship here in Alaska for several reasons. It was right in the middle of hunting season. Many hunters out in the bush had no way to know what happened. Guides had to get special permission to fly and pick up isolated hunters from their camps. Food in grocery stores started to run out since cargo planes couldn’t fly. Rice, flour, and sugar were actually rationed. You weren’t allowed to buy more than 50 pounds of flour and rice or 20 pounds of sugar.

Answer 240

I was watching a show on cable. At ten I switched to NBC and started to shake.I stopped when they said the plane hit at 8:51 because I knew my wife didn't get to work in Tower one till 9:25 Our son was 4 and

visited the office about 3 times.

Answer 241

I was playing volleyball with my best friend, when we finished playing, went to our house and turned on TV. We were just sitting in front of the tv and couldnt imagine that its true. "It most be a stupid joke" we sid, but sadly after some minutes later we realized its the horrible truth.. never forget...

Answer 242

After dropping my kids off at school, I came home and took a little nap. When I woke up, about 10:00 am, there were three messages on my answering machine.



The first one was from Preston's mom (Preston was supposed to come home with my son to play after Kindergarten). She was saying, "After what's happened, I think it's best if I just bring Preston home with me." She sounded pretty upset, and I was thinking, "Great, Jack bit Preston again!"



The next message was from my neighbor, asking if I knew whether the schools would be closing early in light of what was going on. So now I'm thinking, maybe there's an escaped convict running around town or something?



The third one was from my husband: "If you aren't watching TV, turn it on!"



And so I did, and sat there watching in disbelief, like we all did that day. Oddly, my initial reaction was anger and sadness about the buildings. I'd lived in NYC for a while, and I loved those towers! They were such an iconic part of the skyline; a symbol of NYC. How could someone do that to them? Then it dawned on me that there were probably people in those buildings. I guess I assumed that since it was pretty early, maybe not many people had gotten to work yet. But of course they had.



Hard to believe it's been 13 years. It seems like yesterday.

Answer 243

I was in 7th grade in class

Answer 244

I was in the military at the time on my way to work, listening to my radio show when the interrupted with the broadcast. We thought the world was ending.

Answer 245

I staying at my showroom on Warren St 5 blocks away and was sitting in bed recovering from Flu when I heard a far away bang, never got up, heard another bang, didn't get up, then an hour or so later the the power went out and my cell phone wasn't working and then it felt like the whole building moved. It had done a similar thing just a month or so before when a truck crashed into a pole, so I thought maybe it was an accident outside. Still had no idea what had happened till I went out to get a coffee and seen all the police and fire ambulances all zooming by and dust everywhere. Some people in street said a bomb went off at the Trade Center. So I went back upstairs and turned on my emergency radio and heard it was a plane. It was getting all dark from the dust outside and I worried it was going to start coming inside so I grabbed some clothes and started walking up West Broadway and was lucky to have walked into the Sheraton lobby which I ended up staying at 4 days and then went back to a dusty mess, it took 2 months to get cleaners in. 13 years later and things are almost back to normal, at least for me, many in my building moved away after.

Answer 246

Working at an Intelligence agency.



It was an interesting day. Circuits were frozen, so we couldn't do our routine work. We had no TV, so we hooked up an oscilloscope, with some wire as an antenna to watch.

Answer 247

I was barely one-year-old when it happened, so I was probably sitting in my crib or something. I was definitely too young to remember.



R.I.P.

Answer 248

Sitting in French class. I remember the teacher wheeling in one of those tv carts so we could all watch the news. RIP to all of the victims.

Answer 249

It's amazing that everyone still remembers exactly what they were doing this day 13 years ago. I was at work at American National in Galveston, TX... the tallest building in Galveston. There were rumors that the planes may next go and hit refineries in Texas City, which would cause a domino effect and blow up so much area surrounding them... It was a very sad, and scary day for many and may they never be forgotten. All the victims, our police, fire fighters, first responders that rushed in to help all the people and lost their lives as well. 9/11 We'll never forget! Hold strong together as a nation!!! We will never be torn apart!!!

Answer 250

Asleep....Watched the news at noon and saw it then.

Answer 251

I was getting ready to go to work on what in my state was a totally cloudless and beautiful September day; the perfect beach day if not for the dreadful attack.

Answer 252

I was one year old sleeping with my mother who woke up and started freaking out.

Answer 253

I was at home sick watching Little House on TBS and CNN interrupted which I thought was very unusual. then I first thought both buildings were just on fire until I heard the witnesses talking about airplanes. when they hit the Pentagon I knew we were being attacked. I thought it was Saddam Hussein b/c I had never heard of Bin Laden.

Answer 254

Working and learning what pigs the Islamists and Muslims are .

Answer 255

I can only remember 3 separate moments of that tragic day:



1. Waking up to the image of a burning twin tower on the TV. I was 9 and my mom was trying to explain what happened but I'm sure she didn't even fully know yet.



2. When I got school, my teacher had it on the TV too, and she let the class watch for a few minutes before maybe she figured we shouldn't be seeing it.



3. Later that night, my older sisters and I, and a neighborhood friend, went to the corner of a busy intersection with a sign like "God Bless America" and some mini American flags, a lot of cars honked and stuff. I don't think I realized how tragic it all was as a 9 year old but of course now when I look up stuff about 9/11, I get really disturbed and have cried a lot watching the footage :(



R.I.P. to all innocent people that day.

Answer 256

I was watching Maury.

Answer 257

Sleeping in a dorm room, I woke up and logged into ICQ and my Danish friend was freaking out saying it was the start of World War III.

Answer 258

I was 4 years old so I was scared that the same would happen to the flat I was in. I am not from the USA, if that matters.

Answer 259

In the office of MMC watching it unfold on the internet our colleagues were also in that major tragedy

Answer 260

I turned on the TV and watched it.

Answer 261

I was in biology class (also my homeroom class) in my last year of middle school. It was early in the morning (obviously). I had only been in school for about 30 minutes I think. I remember my teacher was this short Indian lady with an English accent. She turned on the TV (or the "tele" as she called it) and we watched the news together. Then, she told us that classes were canceled and that we were all going to be taken home. When I got home, my parents were watching the same thing on the news. That was pretty much all I remember.

Answer 262

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." --Richard Bach

Answer 263

I was coming home from working the graveyard shift. When I pulled into the garage, my husband came out and told me that my older daughter had just started her period and was freaking out. He knew I was the only person in the family who could help her. I managed to calm her down and talked to her about it. I told her what she should expect and how to handle it. I was just getting ready to take her to school when I saw on TV that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. My husband called me from work and asked if I had heard the news and I told him I had. I took my daughter to school and the administrators said to take her back home. She already knew what happened and they didn't want her to tell the other students and scare them. Both of us spent the rest of the day watching live footage of the events and it was horrifying. I hope it never happens again.

Answer 264

I was still asleep and my sister called to wake me and said we are under attack...

Answer 265

I was down in my mom's basement, sipping on tea while watch the tely. Than i saw on the news some sh*tty pilot has crashed into the twin towers and i was like "PFF i dont care" and went to find some hookaz on craigslist.

Answer 266

*I had never seen my manager at work have a TV on his desk; yet, when i went inside his office, I saw the trade-towers on fire and being destroyed.

Answer 267

so sad

Answer 268

I was sleeping and got a phone call to turn on the TV.

Answer 269

I had the television on as I was getting ready for work. I saw the second plane hit live and knew I could be late to work given the significance of this event. I then saw classic "demolition" of three steel frame buildings and knew that something wasn't being reported accurately. It was several years later that I discovered the existence of thermite at the site and a very reasonable theory about how this could be pulled off by a handful of soldiers with powerful friends in high places.

Answer 270

I was at work, working on getting a new robot to run.

Answer 271

I was getting high and cleaning the house when I saw the planes crash into the world trade towers. I stopped in my tracks shocked at what I was watching. I actually thought it was a joke. The tv was on mute and the stereo was blasting. I thought it was a computer simulation or something....idk I was so high. When I turned the stereo off and the tv up I still thought it wasn't real but still I couldn't stop watching. I had a 2yo running around with her little red play pretend vaccuume cleaner saying come'on mommy come'on mommy clean clean! Even still after I was listening to what was going on I didn't understand bc I back then I was nothin' but a drug addict who didn't involve myself with worldly or political affairs. From then on I watched everything about it i could. Who COULD get away from it? That event changed the world. Me too. I don't get high anymore bc i dont wanna miss anything important.

Answer 272

I was still in the Womb!

Answer 273

I was in the U.K. watching the lunchtime news on T.V. with my son sleeping in the room above me, having worked a nightshift the previous night. As I saw pictures of the first building smoking I woke up my son and together we watched, in horror, as we saw the second plane hit. We could not believe what we were watching.

Answer 274

Don't remember...

Answer 275

i actually took a picture of the tv as i saw the plane repeat flying into the building, i was just waking up to go to work. i spent the whole week recording on vhs, the news channels. i took all the recordings and transfered them to CD. but i was a novice and could only transfer video separate from audio and i transfered audio separate from video. i became homeless and could not do the work of joining audio and video. to this day that entire week of news is still separated in my collection of history in recording radio and tv

Answer 276

I was working at JC Penney headquarters in Dallas when we heard that a plabe had hit one of the World Trade Center towers in an apparent accident. When we saw the second plane hit on live TV, it was clear it wasn't an accident. Then the planes in DC and PA hit. Since the Penney's building had around 4000 people working there, we were evacuated into emergency shelters in the basement since officials in Dallas were afraid we could be a possible target. After several hours when all planes were finally grounded by the FAA we left the building. It was really weird, though. We were under the flight path to DFW airport with planes flying overhead constantly, but now there were none in the skies. Very strange sight when you're used to seeing so many planes overhead.

Answer 277

I was finishing up my third back-to-back overseas hardship tour in the Army, when I heard.

Answer 278

i was a kid i would have been 1. getting ready for school or 2. going to school. i was in the 3rd grade, i could barely wrap my head around what was happening. now when i see the footage i'm saddened...

Answer 279

Was delivering in my truck at work. I was near the Pittsburgh airport. One of the planes flew not to far from there before going down. It was very clear and beautiful blue skies. Looking back that was sad. How beautiful the day was but the tragedy unfolding at various locations. My kids were in school and I remember they had the school locked down.

Answer 280

In a simple way of speaking, it only means that any country can be the target of the next terrorist attack.

Answer 281

I was at home and didn't know what was going on since I was like 2

Answer 282

I was still a sixth grader I think, I never even went to school that day, as my aunt in New Hampshire called my mom (we're in Arizona) about what happened in New York, we just stayed home and watched in horror.



And as a kid, a really STUPID kid, I was under the im-

pression that the British were coming back (I had only

recently at the time learned more about the American

Revolution).

Answer 283

Counseling clients at my office.

Answer 284

I was 9 years old, living overseas in Bangkok. I had never lived in American culture before. I didn't know what a terrorist was, or anything of that nature. When my parents were watching the news (around 7:00 pm where I was), I didn't think much of it. I honestly thought some idiots accidentally flew into some buildings. Then my mom explained to me that it was bad people attacking America. School was cancelled the next day, which made me really happy. The following day, when I got to class, all the kids were talking about it. The Americans in our class had newspapers and all, all giving their opinions about the matter. It was then I knew that this was extremely serious.

Answer 285

"Thirteen years ago today,what were you doing when you learned of the tragedy of 9/11?"



I was across the river in New Jersey, watching the smoke drift off first one tower, then the second.

Answer 286

Sleeping.

Answer 287

This is stupid but I was 3 years old and didn't know what 9/11 was until 2006

Answer 288

I was at place of employment. It was announced on the intercom, then we all gathered in the break room and watched it on TV. Most cried while watching, included myself.

Answer 289

Waking up

Answer 290

I was in 3rd grade back the. Getting ready for school, my grandfather who was reading the newspaper was showing all my family members the news. I didn't really get it back then. I just saw the pic of two buildings on fire blasting.

Answer 291

Sitting in the Captain's seat of a DC-9 flying it to Greensboro, NC.

Answer 292

On 09/11/01 a little after 8:30am, I was driving a bus from Salem, Massachusetts to Boston. Someone on my bus was listening to a radio with head phones and yelled out "a plane crashed in to the World Trade Center in New York!" The other passengers wanted to know if it was true, so I called my dispatcher and confirmed it for the passengers and myself.



I had a feeling that more planes would follow, and that is was terrorist.



The day before, 09/10/01, I had had an argument with a man dressed in middle eastern clothing. He wanted me to let him off out side Logan Airport Where there was no longer a stop. I said to him, 'no you have to go to Haymarket Station an take a bus back'. He starts yelling at me like he was the king of the world, but I told him to sit down and shut up. Then I called my dispatcher, explained the situation, and asked for the police to meet me at Haymarket Station. I arrived at Haymarket Station but there was no police. In fact, I started getting the feeling that I was in trouble for enforcing the rules, and profiling a angry man dressed in Middle Eastern clothes.

Answer 293

I turned on FOX News while I was drinking my coffee before work, like I used to always do. It was between the two hits, and they were showing a clip of the first one. I thought it was a movie clip.

Answer 294

Nuking a Zerg in Starcraft

Answer 295

I was overseas in the military and I was annoyed. It was the night shift and usually the night shift is quiet and uneventful. All I wanted to do was be left alone so I could read the Hobbit. Stupid terrorists.

Answer 296

I was in elementary school, in classes, and when i left, my mom told me about the news, she was watching the tv in a live transmition about when the first tower fall, and then a couple minutes later, the 2nd tower fall.

Answer 297

I was in my library,i was a librarian,a customer came in and said that there had been an accident and a plane had gone into the twin towers in america.( i was in london) we put the radio on in the staffroom as the story updated.

Answer 298

I was a sophomore in high school. I was in Spanish class. When the second plane hit, my teacher said, "It's terrorists." I didn't understand the magnitude of what that meant really.

Answer 299

Working at office when a friend told of the tragedy happening

Answer 300

I was in the 4th grade and i remember my teacher walking in with the tv and we were watching the news... i also remember we got out of school early because of the attacks.

Answer 301

I was at blockbuster vídeo and the News came on. It seemed unbelievable that our nation with so much national security could have allowed something like that. It seemed unreal. then I found out it was na inside job.

Answer 302

I was only 3 year old

Answer 303

It was a little after 6 a.m. and I was o the bus going to work and listening to a classical radio station and they broke in and reported it.

Answer 304

I was at home watching sports on TV when a friend called me and told me to switch to the news channel.

Answer 305

I was a kid back then. I was playing with my hotwheels set then when I saw the news reporting on a local news channel in Bangladesh.

Answer 306

13 years ago on this day I was serving overseas.

When I first heard of the atrocity I'd just returned from a patrol. I could feel the atmosphere among the others in our compound, It had happened on the previous day in the early p.m and we had not yet heard.

At first I simply disbelieved!

(Then I got inside and saw the bad sad news myself.)

Answer 307

Working the night shift at LMDC. The staff had to put all Islamic inmates in their own dorms for their own self-protection.

Answer 308

I was in high school in Spanish class when our principal made an announcement of the attacks.

Answer 309

We were greeted by a bunch of pakistanis watching around with a swagger telling us not to mess with 'Brave Muslims" and that there was much more on the way.

Answer 310

I was celebrating my Birth-day ! 75 years ago TODAY, (9/11/1939) Hitler was bombing Warsaw, Poland ( starting WWll ), and I was born in Cisco, TX . !

Answer 311

I was a junior in high school, sitting in calculus class. They sent us home at lunchtime after the news broke.

Answer 312

3rd grade. I'm 20 now. Mr Kleiner's class. Heading to gym. Mom picked me up from school as she was afraid something could happen to me as it was a terrorist attack on US soil.

Answer 313

I was 1, and I used to live in Europe so I probably had no idea. But im sure my parents knew and felt weird since one of them is muslim :o, hehehe

Answer 314

I was at school a couple blocks away my mom had to come to get me and her building used to be next to the towers until a corner of it was crushed.

Answer 315

I was sitting home, on my computer, when Mom called from work and said to turn the TV on. I said what channel? She said it didn't matter, and hung up.

Answer 316

so everything that happens america is a tragedy, it pales in comparison to the rest of the world.

Answer 317

I was getting ready to go to work and turned the local morning news on, and I saw it live as it was unfolding. Shocked, absolutely shocked.

Answer 318

Watching it happen downstairs. I thought it was the best looking action movie I'd ever seen (I was 4).

Answer 319

Working in my office- about one mile from the towers- one of the worst days of my life.

Answer 320

I was in a 4th grade classroom, after attendance someone came in the room to whisper something in the substitutes ear, she turned on the TV for literally 30 seconds. Then the stupid ***** turned it off, all I could see was the North tower still standing.

Answer 321

Sitting in class during 2nd grade.

Answer 322

Being born.

Answer 323

I was only 2. So I actually don't know what I was doing.

Answer 324

I was at work and someone told me. Then I told a Russian co-worker who could barely understand English. She followed me to break (I usually take them by myself) and tried to get me to communicate what happened. I tried to gesticulate what happened. She made my lunch break pure torture.

Answer 325

sitting in 8th grade earth science class learning about ocean cycles

Answer 326

Drinking coffee and watching "Good Morning America".

Answer 327

I was in AIT walking back to the barracks from the chow hall

Answer 328

I was in first grade coloring when it happened. We got out of school early. That is all I remember.

Answer 329

I was playing with Legos making a big tower in my parents' living room.

Answer 330

I was only 3 :(

Answer 331

I have no idea because I was only 10 months old.

Answer 332

I was in the shower. When I got out mom told me it was on the TV.

Answer 333

I was only 4 years old! I dont even remembar it!

Answer 334

I was at the gym and looked up at the TV and saw it all happening.

Answer 335

I was on Bethel Island, CA, USA, at the time, preparing for work. I had just activated the TV we had at the time, around 6:45 a.m. or so (PDT) in anticipation of NBC News Today, and NBC affiliate KCRA-TV, Sacramento, CA, had pre-empted its own morning news to relay the developing story from NBC News Headquarters, New York, NY, with Tower 3, World Trade Center, on fire around the 98th floor. I was stunned until 7:38 a.m., when a Pan American Airways Boeing 737 plowed into Tower 4 around the 70th floor, and shock instantly turned into rage - I was bent on finding out who was responsible for the first premeditated crash of an aircraft into a building since 1945 and exterminating not only the immediate associates thereof but also relatives, livestock and crops, wildlife, wild vegetation, vermin, in fact not even leaving any building foundations intact, following the orders of Deuteronomy 7:1,2; 20:16,17; 25:17ff to their ultimate conclusion. Some days later, tape-delay footage of Palestinians cheering in the streets was aired - and I came to the conclusion that the United States had a God-given duty to turn the Gaza Strip into sea, quite literally, in an operation as large as Overlord 1944 and the proposed Olympic 1945 combined, with no fewer than four Carrier Wings and a massive amount of invasion fire support from all four BB61 Class battleships, all loaded for dragon.



To this day I am convinced that the recent battle that the State of Israel fought in the Gaza Strip should have been the United States' fight to begin with, thirteen years earlier.

Answer 336

I wasn't born when it happened

Answer 337

I was at work that morning, as usual, as a programmer/analyst, in a Maryland suburb of DC, when I got a phone call from my parents (both of whom have since passed). I realized that it was big at the time, but the full gravity of the day's events didn't really sink in until that evening, at home, seeing it on the news.



Years later I learned that one of the motels some of the terrorists had stayed in, before going into action, was right here in my town, just a few miles from my house.



I still get a little chill when I pass that way.



And I still feel eternally grateful for the heroes on Flight 93, whose passengers organized to thwart the mission of the terrorists on that plane, sending it crashing into a field near Shanksville, Pa. instead of the probable target, either the Capitol or the White House.

And kudos to Neil Young for his song about what Todd Beamer et al, did that day -- "Let's Roll":





I know I said I love you, I know you know it's true,

I got to put the phone down, and do what we gotta do,

One's standing in the aisle way, two more at the door,

We got to get inside there before they kill some more.



Time is runnin' out -- let's roll,

Time is runnin' out -- let's roll.



No time for indecision, we got to make a move,

I hope that we're forgiven for what we have to do,

How this all got started I'll never understand,

I hope someone can fly this thing and get us back to land.



Time is runnin' out -- let's roll,

Time is runnin' out -- let's roll.



No one has the answer, but one thing is true--

You got to turn on evil when it's comin' after you,

You got to face it down, and when it tries to hide,

You got to go in after it and never be denied.



Time is runnin' out -- let's roll,

Time is runnin' out -- let's roll.



Let's roll for freedom, let's roll for love,

Goin' after Satan on the wings of a dove,

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth,

Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.



Time is runnin' out -- let's roll,

Time is runnin' out -- let's roll,

Time is runnin' out -- let's roll,



-- words & music: Neil Young





Neil is not usually to my musical taste, but this time, he couldn't have nailed it any better!



Special remembrance and thanks must also go to the first responders -- those who gave their last ounce of effort; those who came through it; and especially those who didn't.

That goes for NYC and Arlington, Va.

Answer 338

At work, weeding a flower bed.

Answer 339

Watching it on TV at work.

Answer 340

getting ready to go go to class I was in 3rd grade

Answer 341

Driving to Fullerton.



My immediate reaction was, oh, great, here we go again, another stupid war.

Answer 342

getting ready to go to school when my grandpa called and told me to turn on the tv.

Answer 343

Sleeping but then my mom yelled the world is on fire

Answer 344

I was busy being only a month old :)

Answer 345

I had just had surgery and was lying in bed in pain.

Answer 346

I was watching television when I saw it happen.

Answer 347

13 years ago, i was a toddler, i liked eating chicken and playing football..

Answer 348

I was probably pooping myself, given I was only a few days old.

Answer 349

I was a child. I was at school

Answer 350

i was playing on my ps2 , when my mom called me and told me to switch to CNN

Answer 351

i was still warring diapers at the time.

Answer 352

I was sleeping

Answer 353

I dont remember what i was doing

Answer 354

I was nine months old...

Answer 355

I was in jail.

Answer 356

was sleeping (in australia)

Answer 357

home

Answer 358

nothing

Answer 359

my job.